Windshield wiper blade with angled frame

• US 5,319,826 A
• Filed: 09/26/1991
• Issued: 06/14/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Trico Products Corporation (Crowne Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Trico Products Corporation (Crowne Group LLC)
• Inventors: Mower, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Hornsby, Harvey C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRAHAM, GARY K
• Application Number:
  US07/766,904
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 15/250.42, 15/250.36, 15/250.35, 15/250.31, 15/250.32
• US Class Current: 15/250.44
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3801 characterised by a blade support harness consisting of several articulated elements B60S1/3803, B60S1/3806 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3813 chacterised by a support harness consisting of several articulated elements

Abstract

A windscreen wiper blade (1) comprises a harness (3, 5, 7) carrying a blade rubber (23) for wiping contact with the windscreen and having means (17) for connection with a wiper arm (11) for driving the blade (1) across the screen, in which the longitudinal central plane (α) through at least a part of the harness (3, 5, 7) lies at an angle (θ) to the longitudinal central plane (β) of the blade rubber (23).

Claims

1. A windscreen wiper blade including

a blade rubber assembly including an elongated blade rubber (23) and rails (25), said blade rubber assembly having a central longitudinal plane β

adapted to be supported perpendicular to a windscreen,

a hardness for supporting said blade rubber assembly comprising a main yoke (3) and at least two subsidiary yokes (5 and

     7),

pivotal attachments between said main yoke and said subsidiary yokes holding said yokes in a common central longitudinal plane (α

) of the harness,

said subsidiary yokes each having symmetrical claws (21) at opposite ends thereof engaging said blade rubber assembly to hold the blade rubber perpendicularly within said claws,

said main yoke also having a center part (9) including an arm attachment means (9) fitted with a pivot pin (17) extending along an axis which is at a predetermined angle with respect to said central longitudinal plane of the harness;

the improvement comprising

each of said subsidiary yokes having twisted regions (27) of the same direction adjacent said claws and at an acute angle θ

to locate said central longitudinal plane β

of said blade rubber assembly perpendicular to the windscreen while said central longitudinal plane α

of the hardness is at a predetermined acute angle θ

with respect to the windscreen

whereby said blade rubber assembly is supported perpendicular to a windscreen and the remainder of said hardness is at an acute angle to the windscreen.

2. A windscreen wiper blade assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said center part (9) of said main yoke includes a twist (29) of opposite direction and equal angular extent to said twisted regions (27) in said subsidiary yokes, such that the axis of said pivot pin (17) lies at right angles to said central longitudinal plane β

of said blade rubber assembly.

3. A windscreen wiper blade assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pivot pin (17) extends at right angles to said central longitudinal plane β

of said blade rubber assembly (23,

     25).

4. A windscreen wiper blade as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pivot pin (17) is located perpendicular to said central longitudinal plane α

of said main and subsidiary yokes, for use with an arm (11) having a part (32) twisted at said angle θ

.